DocCheck Flexikon — German Medical Dictionary API

Bulk extraction of DocCheck Flexikon — Germany's largest medical wiki (50,000+ articles, peer-reviewed by physicians). Filter by medical specialty (Kardiologie, Neurologie, etc.). Built for German-language medical NLP, education platforms, and DACH health-tech.

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What this Actor does

Data source: DocCheck Flexikon — the German medical knowledge wiki, used by 1M+ DACH healthcare professionals.

Output is one JSON record per result, conforming to the azureblue/medical-core envelope so you can join across our other actors on sourceUrl and dataHash.

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Use Cases

1. German medical NLP corpus

A German health-tech startup needs a clean German medical corpus to fine-tune their LLM for clinical note summarization. Bulk-pulling Flexikon by specialty gives them ~5000 articles per specialty — 3-day training-data setup instead of 3 weeks.

2. German patient-education app

A consumer health app shows DocCheck definitions when a patient taps an unknown German medical term. Bulk-load the most-common 2000 conditions; refresh quarterly.

3. CME content sourcing

A German CME platform builds quiz questions from Flexikon articles. The structured output (term, definition, synonyms, English equivalent) is the perfect quiz-question source.

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Input

{
  "category": "Kardiologie",
  "maxResults": 50
}

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Output (sample item)

{
  "title": "Myokardinfarkt",
  "englishTerm": "myocardial infarction",
  "categories": [
    "Kardiologie",
    "Notfallmedizin"
  ],
  "definition": "Ein Myokardinfarkt ist eine isch\u00e4mische Nekrose des Herzmuskels...",
  "synonyms": [
    "Herzinfarkt",
    "MI",
    "AMI"
  ],
  "url": "https://flexikon.doccheck.com/de/Myokardinfarkt"
}

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Pricing

Event	Price	When it fires
Per result	$0.0075	Per scraped record pushed to the dataset

Trial mode: pass mode: "trial" to get 5 results free with no charges. Use it to evaluate output shape before subscribing.

Pricing on this Actor will rise on 2026-06-17 in line with our monetization tier upgrade. Subscribers active before then keep the current price.

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Compliance

• Public-data only — every endpoint is the source's official public interface. No login walls, no PHI, no paywalled content.
• GDPR Art. 6(1)(f) / equivalent — buyer is responsible for downstream use of the extracted data.
• Source attribution — every dataset item includes sourceUrl linking back to the canonical source.

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Sister Actors — complementary coverage from azureblue

• ncbi-mesh-scraper
• icd11-diagnosis-scraper
• medlineplus-health-scraper

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Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md in this Actor.